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Scott,

Great idea and it looks great. However, if you follow the build manual and match drill all four ribs after CAREFULLY centering the nylon block on the biggest lightning hole, all the rib blocks will be perfectly aligned to each other. After careful measurement of the lightning holes, they are not all perfect, so alignment to each other is most important. Please don't take this as a negative comment on the alignment tool, as it is a great idea, but it was not a big hurdle in lining up my blocks. Plus I am CAD stupid!!

Barry

Scott,

Thanks for making this CAD file available. This is perfect timing, as I just started working on my wing ribs. I downloaded the file, and I'm looking for someone at work that can print me this jig.

Thanks again,
Glen

Jinkers wrote:I wasn't sure how to eyeball the Wing Fold Center Slider block on the ribs so I drew up a centering jig and had it 3d printed. If anybody thinks they might be interested in the Solidworks files I can upload them to GrabCAD.

Scott

I can't yet envision what this part is useful for yet, but I think once I have my fuselage done and try to slide the wings in it will become obvious. But I also want to thank you for getting me motivated to finally learn CAD. I have done software work for years but never anything using CAD, played with AutoCAD for maybe a week once but never really designed anything. Didn't realize how easy it was to online order 3D printed parts from files (and I assume metal machined parts the same way). Loaded FreeCAD on my mac and will try to get serious about it this time (Solidworks only runs on windows and I read it's real slow running on a windows vm on a mac).

Thanks for the part files.

Rick Holland
Panther #32

I have tried twice to post the link to GrabCAD but for some reason the forum just doesn't like it. You can just google GrabCAD and the search on 'Panther' on GrabCAD to download the files.

I would be interested

I wasn't sure how to eyeball the Wing Fold Center Slider block on the ribs so I drew up a centering jig and had it 3d printed. If anybody thinks they might be interested in the Solidworks files I can upload them to GrabCAD.